THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
"AS YOU LIKE IT” POLICY ADOPTED BY HOLLYWOOD
DEMAND FOR HAPPY ENDING
NOTES AND COMMENTS BY “CELLULOID'
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" AND they lived happily ever go to follow those in quick
what note an author may give Star Find which brought him fur- Smart Money, and than came Five. the last page of his novel; Holly-ther plaudits and bigger character wood will equip the final fade-parts, including a couple of Chin- out with wedding bells.
cae portrayals, which unfortunately, Critics have spilled more ink on are unlikely to come here owing to the generally-accepted happy-ending a general policy of exhibitors not policy of Hollywood film studios to sell China to China
than did Edgar Wallace in his As the title indicates, Five Star prolific outpourings, authors have Final has a background of printers' raved, ranted and refused to write ink and sob stories, but those who again and highbrows have uttered are tempted to pass it by as "an dignified protests at the sacrificing other newspaper yarn" will re- of iterary classics to the whims gret the omission. Swift in its of the middle west masses that action, restrained in its emotional 'crowd into ornate cinema houses. sequences, and convincing to a But Hollywood has at last lent remarkable degree considering an ear to the murmurings. A modern audiences, it towers above slightly defective car it has been, the other stories that have lowered but an ear, nevertheless.
the appeal of newspaper films. For now film studios are turning In a short space it is impossible out alternative läst-reals. When to hint at the hundreds of subtle,
WEEK-END FILMS
King's: Society Girl." Queen's: "Fust Life" Central: "Hell's Highway." Oriental: "Vanity Fair." Majestic: "Six hours to Live." Star: "Chance of a Night-time." World: "Emma."
SATURDAY.
King's: **Tess of the Storm Country.”.
Central: "Steady Company."
SUNDAY,
Queen's: "Five Star Final.” Majestic: "The Most Dangerous Game."
the gallant hero or beautiful ingenious and. imaginative touches busy on the script, and he will heroine is stricken to a 'sickbed, the that have gone to make up the make his debut as a director on cameras click twice. Once he or film. Although it travels along the this film in collaboration with she reco.ers sufficiently to eater usual lines in plot, these deft Hulbert. There is no into an osculatory embrace that flashes collect it from the scrap but it is a very original and title yet, augura well for their future hap heap of just ordinary, entertain- amusing yarn. piness," and then the scene is re-ment...
Quite soon, too, Vi Loraine will
taken with he (or she) shuffling off Robinson plays the scandal- get to work on Britannia of Bill this mortal coll, leaving a broken mongering editor with a new and ingsgate, with Gordon Harker, hearted lover and a disappointed refreshing personality: a little That is bound to be a laughable toarful audience.
man with a normally little voice, affair with those two, The alternative reels are supplied but with forceful expression in ench to the cinema houses and it is left gesture and intonation. The small entirely to the discretion of the part players are right up to scratch: management, which no doubt knows each a star in his part. The
GAINST a background of hempen squares and sawdust, Norman Foster makes loves to June Clyda in the Central attraction, "Stendy
Company."
designation of Bargain Basement, "Light romance" is the official and Cecil Roberts, the novelist and journalist, is the author.
J. B. Priestley's work came to the cinema last year with the Holly- wood production of his early novel "Benighted" as "The Old Dark House." His "famous. "Good „Com- panions" is in the cutting room now, and this year he goes a step further with his first story written for the screen. "Hey Nonny" is the title, and it is a lighthearted tale of a young man who sets about pepping-up a aleepy English market town.
Leslie Henson will appear in hla wn stage success "It's a 'Boy" on the screen, and another theatre winner in "Orders are Orders" the Ian Hay farce, will be screened. Op the more serious side Mr. Balcon's most important item, down for production is "I Was a Spy," the
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Kenna, the war time secret service agent, and there is a thriller called "The Ghoul" on the year's list.
A crew of comies headed by Paris Flanagan and Allan will be starred Geneva In a succession of two-reel slapstiek Berlin.. its audience, whether to leave the cast includes H. B. Warner, Boris comedies. Jack Williams, a new Helsingfors nudience in tears, or smiles.. Karloff, Purnell B. Fratt, Marian variety comedian, is to have his thes
The idea may not be. new, but it Marsh and Frances Starr:
talkie chance. is receiving prominence just now
One of the biggest British produc overazza, where A Farewell to Arms IGHTNESS, love and laught-tions of 1933 will be "Bitter Sweet,"
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If they were both Stevenson, the scenario writer, is Ỉ picture—the studio's first for the
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is causing audiences in different Ler seem to be the prevalent which Herbert Wilcox secured after eltics to exchange a variety of tones in the new British produc- many people thought it had been views. The film made its showing tions, notice of which has just wood."
acquired, like Cavalcade, by Holly Vienna -in Hongkong last week, and al-
though the closing shot was cloud been received from studios in ed in obscurity it seemed that Helen England. The beginning of the rumour that Ramon Novarro may Hongkorg.
Madrid Hayes stood a six-to-one chance of year saw little work done in the go to England to play the male Brussels pulling through the death-bed scene studios, but with the advent. of lead, and, indeed the only fact Stoc that had accupfed the last half-the summer, most of the com- settled about the production at all Copenhagen..
Stockholm hour. Which, if it interests any-panies have set out on an in is that Anna Neagle will be the Lisbon. one, was the opposite to what she tensive film-producing campaign. heroine the biggest part of her Bombay did in Hemingway's novel.
Rio. One of the films now being shot career, "Bitter Sweet" will probab- Yokohama One disturbing thought arises from the revelation that two end-s
new Jack Hulbert-Cicely ly be begun within the next month, Montevideo. ings were peddled round to A Fare-Courtneidge comedy. Robert Already the new Syd Howard Montreal..
well to Arms.
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few words now and then, and re- ifred to the background.
The film was made two years ago, and to-day the unahaven ranch hand has his name in big lights, playing matinee idols, American mayora, Salvation Army officers and gangster chiefs with the same cheery smile.
It was Clark Gable, and The Painted. Desert was his first film. His next was Dance Foole Dance and his meteoric rise since then is better known than the rise and fall of ancient Rome.
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EDWARD G. Robinson, whose
film fame is still growing, has taken a long time to reach Hongkong, but on Sunday he. will make his bow here in Five Star Final, and we shall find for ourselves what dynamic power there is in this undersized plain- looking man, who has caused critics abroad to exhaust their stocks of superlatives.
Robinson makes his films for, First National; that is why his arrival in Hongkong has bsen'] retarded, for the first film in which be jumped to the front, Scarface, was produced two years
PLAIMED to be the last film that the oft-counlod pair will bake. Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor come to the King, to-morrow is the talking version of Mary Pickford's silent auccari, Tass of the
Storm Country."
year is getting under way. It is "The Knight of the Garter," and the sleepy-looking comedian with the j hands that stutter will have strong feminine support in Winifred Shotter and Elsie Randolpit.
Winnie of the devastating dim- ples will have a busy new year for she is In Ralph Lynn's first 1933 picture, "Summer Lightning," This is the very funny Wodehouse story, and should suit Lynn admirably. This is a big year for both Lynn and Walls, for it will see them at different times working under their new £200,000 contract, which covers the next three years.
Jack Buchanan will follow. hin announced plan of making only two pictures this year, and the first will be his stage hit "That's a Good Girl" when he returns. from America.
Howard, Lynn, and Walls will each make two pictures for the Wilcox concern during the year, and a "vehicle" will be found for the studio's other girl star, Dorothy Bouchier.
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The first Hitchcock production of the year will be a "Bullog Drum mand" story, not yet east, and the big musical event of the year will be "Southern Maid,” with Nancy Brown, who will be seen here soon In "The Maid of the Mountains,"
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